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- Wed May 31, 2023 2:33 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Nirvana with and without remainder
- Replies: 4
- Views: 772
Re: Nirvana with and without remainder
Mahākāśyapa... That's all interesting, thank you. Isn't the general idea that Mahākāśyapa is preserving certain things that will then be given to Maitreya in the future by him? That is despite him entering into nirupadhiśeṣanirvāṇa? In other words, it's not simply that his inert corpse won't decomp...
- Wed May 31, 2023 2:12 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: So what exactly does it mean to take refuge?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1450
Re: So what exactly does it mean to take refuge?
Taking refuge is the simple acknowledgement that everything in samsara is suffering and there is no refuge in samsara at all. Therefore you take refuge in the triple gem because it is the only means to be liberated from suffering. FWIW, in my opinion this is overly simplistic and doesn't acknowledg...
- Tue May 30, 2023 9:15 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Nirvana with and without remainder
- Replies: 4
- Views: 772
Nirvana with and without remainder
This may seem like a Theravada question, and in many ways it is, but it's not limited to Theravada so I feel it's appropriate enough to ask. The general orthodoxy seems to be that Nirvana with remainder is when an arhat is still alive, and then nirvana without remainder is when the arhat dies. My qu...
- Thu May 25, 2023 2:33 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: So what exactly does it mean to take refuge?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1450
Re: So what exactly does it mean to take refuge?
There are outer, inner, and secret levels of refuge, basically put, and all told it is a complete practice.
- Thu May 25, 2023 1:49 am
- Forum: Creative Writing
- Topic: Elements Part 2
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1161
Elements Part 2
Space, the basis. The nature of all dharmas realized to be dharmata. 🫧 Earth. First empowerment. The bodymind realized to be indivisible from suchness, the deity, and all phenomena of the bodymind - the ‘World’ - realized as the mandala of the deity. 💎 Fire. Second empowerment. Burning, longing for ...
- Wed May 24, 2023 2:11 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Western Philosophy and emptiness
- Replies: 171
- Views: 11605
Re: Western Philosophy and emptiness
... world if it and us are empty? Would it make more sense if instead of just saying "empty", you say "intrinsically empty" or something along those lines? In other words, if you will, everything around us (in the universe as we think we know it) only exists because it has been ...
- Fri May 19, 2023 2:04 pm
- Forum: Creative Writing
- Topic: Swaying of her Hips
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1091
Swaying of her Hips
If I say
The most beautiful woman, in all the three worlds,
Her silks swaying as she dances
A form is conjured into your mind.
How magical! How wondrous!
The speech of the Buddha
is the Deity.
The most beautiful woman, in all the three worlds,
Her silks swaying as she dances
A form is conjured into your mind.
How magical! How wondrous!
The speech of the Buddha
is the Deity.
- Mon May 15, 2023 9:03 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Euthanizing pets...
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3699
Re: Euthanizing pets...
Perhaps it is worth noting that in the Velama Sutta, it is said that the merit of even a whiff of goodwill is a higher merit than that of keeping the precepts.
- Mon May 15, 2023 2:23 pm
- Forum: Creative Writing
- Topic: Five Families
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1133
Five Families
Space The ground. Any conception isn't it. Any form isn't it. And yet, any conception, any form, is not other than it. Earth Bodhicitta in form. The channels of the body of the deity. Incarnation of that which is sublime. Fire Longing for the Sublime Love for beings, and Love for Dinivity. Singlepoi...
- Fri May 12, 2023 2:49 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: What career do you all have?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1776
Re: What career do you all have?
I'm a primary care physician, at the moment.
- Wed May 10, 2023 7:36 pm
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Who is Amida Buddha
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2631
Re: Who is Amida Buddha
There are different levels of understanding, but on a general level, Amitabha/Amida Buddha is considered to be a Buddha that resides currently in a different world system. His environment, his pure land, is called Sukhavati. Amitabha is a special Buddha because, as part of the Bodhisattva path, aspi...
- Mon May 08, 2023 2:13 pm
- Forum: Creative Writing
- Topic: One Life
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1099
One Life
One time,
I learned a lot.
Dying sucked.
The cowherd stayed in tukdam
For 8 days.
I learned a lot.
Dying sucked.
The cowherd stayed in tukdam
For 8 days.
- Fri May 05, 2023 5:19 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
- Replies: 173
- Views: 13985
Re: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
FWIW, I think proper discernment of the third turning is identical to the realization of the path of seeing. The second turning sort of includes this, but it can also be understood in an intellectual manner without this discernment. Instead of equating correct analysis of philosophical tenets from ...
- Fri May 05, 2023 1:52 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
- Replies: 173
- Views: 13985
Re: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
The suggestion that Dudjom’s arguments, which are developed with the use of citations from a number of sutras and other treatises, depend on one citation - a "citation" that is not even actually cited - and are therefore undermined, is thus inconsequential to the extent that it effectivel...
- Thu May 04, 2023 3:27 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
- Replies: 173
- Views: 13985
Re: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
Dudjom’s arguments about an inner madhyanaka are not convincing, partially predicated as they are on a mangled citation from Bhavaviveka that does not mean what he takes it to mean Arguing with you is mostly a fool's game, but generally speaking I think Dudjom Rinpoche is more of an authority than ...
- Thu May 04, 2023 3:17 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
- Replies: 173
- Views: 13985
Re: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
One other thing, at the risk of over-speaking: This system of the natural great perfection's usual manner of evaluating freedom from extremes, and so on, is the same as prasaṅga madhyamaka. The difference is that in madhyamaka an emptiness that is considered to be like empty space is made into the ...
- Thu May 04, 2023 3:03 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
- Replies: 173
- Views: 13985
Re: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
Prasangika Madhyamaka is the doorway to the realization of the path of seeing. If that is the case, then Bhāvaviveka, Asanga, etc, wouldn't have attained Arya bodhisattvahood. No, I don't think that is necessarily the case. The essential point has to be assimilated, which can be done in a non-analy...
- Thu May 04, 2023 2:21 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
- Replies: 173
- Views: 13985
Re: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
One other thing, at the risk of over-speaking: This system of the natural great perfection's usual manner of evaluating freedom from extremes, and so on, is the same as prasaṅga madhyamaka. The difference is that in madhyamaka an emptiness that is considered to be like empty space is made into the b...
- Thu May 04, 2023 12:45 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
- Replies: 173
- Views: 13985
Re: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
"... what is important here is understand... that when the sense fields are laid to rest in their ground in Longde's practice of Dzogchen, then this luminosity is not neutral. It's completely and perfectly divine. It is brilliant wonderment and bliss beyond any imagining. If one practices Dzog...
- Thu May 04, 2023 12:22 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
- Replies: 173
- Views: 13985
Re: Clarification on Nyingma view of emptiness
Where does he say this is a mandala of deities? That statement was not specific to Dzogchen. However, using Barron’s translations, Longchenpa says, The Prasangika system expounds the very highest view of all the cause-based dialectical approaches. He then says, The inner approach of the secret mant...